Rotpunkt documents the advent, the agony and the art of the redpoint through Alex Megos's efforts to redefine the boundaries of the form. The film traces the redpointwhich transformed rock climbing from an engineering problem into a brilliant test of mental and physical strengthfrom its origins with a ragtag bunch of tights-wearing revolutionaries in rural Bavaria, to its golden era with Wolfgang Gllich, to its new ideal in the German phenom Megos as he battles to unlock new levels of human potential.